We had a talk about this the other night in TS... about the dropship module. Really what is stopping someone from loading up 20 people in a smaller ship? Do you really need the module to move more people? Unless I've missed a mechanic somewhere I've never read anything about limiting how many people can get on board, even though ships have a crew #.

The dropship module mentions like an ammo rack, weapons, recharge station, etc. but I think if you have your rag tag team drop ship team your team members are going to have their own setup of weapons they prefer anyway, so what benefit does that weapon rack really bring. You could just bring some ammo cargo on your smaller ship.

Just some speculation ;) correct me if they have mentioned something about max number of people that can board a ship.